Suicide training for schools, law on domestic violence/assault victims and measure on nonprofit properties enacted. Senator Kay Floyd, sponsor of the measures, thanks colleagues and governor

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OKLAHOMA CITY – A spread of bipartisan measures launched this session by Senate Democratic Chief Kay Floyd, geared toward subjects from suicide prevention to higher helping victims of home violence, have been signed into legislation.

Floyd, D-Oklahoma Metropolis, thanked her colleagues and the governor for his or her assist on the laws.

“Every of those measures offers with points impacting Oklahomans and their households in each a part of this state, and so they had been handed with overwhelming, bipartisan assist,” Floyd stated.

“I’m deeply grateful to my co-authors, our fellow members and to Governor Stitt for getting these payments by way of the Legislature and in our statutes.”

These measures now signed into legislation embody:

• Senate Invoice 16, by Floyd and Rep. Carol Bush, R-Tulsa.  Because the backlog of sexual assault proof kits throughout Oklahoma is being addressed, crime victims can expertise trauma. S.B. 16 will give victims entry to counseling providers.
• Senate Invoice 17, by Floyd and Bush.  The laws enhances Oklahoma’s Lethality Evaluation Protocol (LAP) utilized by legislation enforcement investigating home violence crimes to determine victims at biggest threat of changing into murder victims and figuring out assets.
• Senate Invoice 21, by Floyd and Rep. Marcus McEntire, R-Duncan. Makes it necessary for lecturers and employees to endure suicide consciousness and prevention coaching as soon as each two years.
• Senate Invoice 22, by Floyd and Rep. Tammy West, R-Oklahoma Metropolis. The measure considerations nonprofits which have leased closed college buildings to supply native providers. These nonprofits can be given the proper of first refusal if a college district later decides to promote the constructing.

For extra info on a few of these measures, together with extra detailed feedback from Floyd’s co-sponsors, go to right here.

Floyd’s service on the State Capitol started after the 2012 election. That 12 months, she ran first in a crowded Democratic main, prevailed within the subsequent runoff, and simply gained the overall election. After serving one time period within the Home (to which she was elected in 2023), Senator Floyd has served within the higher chamber since her election in 2014, and gained reelection with out opposition in 2018.

Senator Floyd grew to become Minority Chief within the Oklahoma Senate in Could 2018. She had beforehand served as chair of the Democratic Caucus.

Floyd’s work on the Capitol has garnered recognition. In 2018, Senator Floyd was honored with the “Guardian Award” from the Oklahoma Fee on the Standing of Ladies.

In 2016, the Nationwide Basis for Ladies Legislators (NFWL) designated Floyd as a winner of the Elected Ladies of Excellence Award.

NOTE: The Metropolis Sentinel’s Pat McGuigan contributed to this report.  

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